Marcia Haag

Professor, Linguistics

Marcia Haag earned her PhD at the State University of New York, Stony Brook in 1996 and became an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma in 2000. She was promoted to Professor in 2015.

Her research interests are centered on Native American languages, and she has engaged in theoretical work, language preservation, and literature. Her primary research languages are Choctaw and Cherokee. Her theoretical work is concerned with lexical roots, comparative word formation, and arbitrary categories. She has written, with her long-time collaborator Henry Willis, two Choctaw textbooks, as well as a translation of the 1826-1828 secretarial notes of Peter Pitchlynn. She has become engaged in the problems of literary translation of indigenous languages as well.

At OU, she teaches, besides General Linguistics and the research course Senior Essay, Syntax, Semantics, Morphology, Field Methods, and occasional Topics courses.

Selected Publications

2016. A Listening Wind: Native Literature from the Southeast. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

-- and Henry Willis. 2013. A Gathering of Statesmen: Records of the Choctaw Council Meetings 1826-1828 by Peter Perkins Pitchlynn. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.